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11:45 AM ET, September 10, 2009

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David Pogue / Bits:
Steve Jobs on Amazon and Ice Cream  —  Steve Jobs at an Apple music event on Wednesday. … Wednesday in San Francisco, I attended Apple's annual iPod Show, its holiday-season kickoff of new iPods and iTunes Store developments.  —  I'll have a look at what's new in a post on Pogue's Posts on Thursday.
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Despite lack of surprises, Apple announcements seen as positive
Discussion: TechVi and GottaBeMobile.com
Peter Cohen / Macworld:
Apple Rock and Roll event now on QuickTime
Discussion: TUAW, The iPhone Blog and I4U News
Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
Now S-U-P-E-R-sized!  —  Search, that is.  For us, search has always been our focus.  And, starting today, you'll notice on our homepage and on our search results pages, our search box is growing in size.  Although this is a very simple idea and an even simpler change, we're excited about it …
Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google developing a micropayment platform and pitching newspapers: “'Open' need not mean free”  —  Google is developing a micropayment platform that will be “available to both Google and non-Google properties within the next year,” according to a document the company submitted to the Newspaper Association of America.
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Tom Krazit / Webware.com:   Recurring problems with Google Checkout
Verizon:
Verizon Wireless Introduces The HTC Touch Pro2  —  For customer inquiries, please call 800-922-0204 or go to  —  BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and BELLEVUE, Wash. — Verizon Wireless and HTC Corporation introduce the HTC Touch Pro2™, a global-capable smartphone designed for the busiest professionals and world travelers.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Apple Approves Real's Rhapsody iPhone App; First Look  —  Maybe it was the anti-trust patrol looking over Apple's shoulder or the memory of the RealNetwork settlement with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), but the Rhapsody iPhone/iTouch app—the first in the U.S. to offer on-demand streaming music …
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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Somebody Has To Say It: It's Time For iTunes Lite  —  Facebook integration.  Tweeting my music interests.  AppleTV.  Full-screen album extras.  App management.  An entire online store.  Smart playlists.  CD burning.  Ringtone creation.  Tips the scales at 88MB.
Discussion: Mashable! and broadstuff
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Launches Internet Stat Center  —  Without any fanfare, Google has launched a new resource called “Google Internet Stats” which brings together industry facts and insights from across five different industries.  Using a number of third party vendor as sources, the stats tool parses through online data …
Randall Bennett / TechVi:
Sprint to launch unlimited cell-to-cell calling, regardless of network  —  UPDATE: It's official.  —  An anonymous tipster tells TechVi Sprint will be launching a calling plan which will allow customers to call any other cell phone from any other carrier for free.
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
The future of Windows phones and Windows Mobile  —  Today at TechEd Australia I took the opportunity to chat with Loke Uei Tan - program manager on the Windows Mobile team - to talk about the future of Windows phones and the Windows Mobile OS.  —  As a Windows Mobile user who's doubted …
Cliff Edwards / Business Week:
AMD Presses Consumers to Rethink the Chip  —  Tired of losing speed comparisons with Intel processors, Advanced Micro Devices will stress how its chips can satisfy specific computer needs  —  Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) wants to change the way you think about its chips.
BBC:
Unhappy with your broadband speed?  Try Winston the pigeon  —  Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.  —  A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google's 09/09/09 09:09:09 Logo  —  For a brief period of time, the following logo doodle was showing on the Google US homepage yesterday, the 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th year of this millenium:  —  It's not the first time that Google only briefly displays a special logo.
Discussion: Mashable!
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bing Loves The Porn Hounds  —  Bing is an excellent search engine.  For one thing the surprising early reviews probably forced Yahoo's hand as they entered into one of the dumber corporate transactions I've ever seen.  So, kudos to Bing.  Golf clap.  Etc.
Discussion: WebProNews and eWeek
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Google Voice and Gmail are sort of merging  —  Two new little Google Voice features just made their way into Gmail.  A new option lets text messages sent to Google Voice show up as e-mail messages in Gmail.  You can reply to messages from Gmail, too, which makes it a nice platform for carrying on a text message conversation.
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
With iTunes 9, Apple again disables Palm Pre sync  —  The tug of war between Apple and Palm continues, as the latest update to iTunes has once again blocked the Palm Pre from syncing with a users' iTunes library.  —  When the Palm Pre was first released, it, by default …
Discussion: PreCentral.net and SiliconBeat
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Pirate Bay buyer ‘misled’ investors, booted off exchange  —  A Swedish stock exchange has banned Global Gaming Factory X from offering its shares there after concluding the company “misled” investors about its ability to purchase The Pirate Bay.  —  AktieTorget, the Swedish stock market …
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Listening to Radio on the Web?  That's So Last Year  —  The next generation of radio listeners might not remember the olden days of scrolling through stations by turning a knob on a car or home stereo.  Instead, the radio they listen to could very well be on their mobile phones.
Discussion: Download Squad
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Tom Conrad / Pandora:
Pandora for Android  —  When we set out building Pandora four years ago …
Matt Asay / CNET News:
Oracle makes promises to Sun customers, but mum on MySQL  —  Oracle has much to say to Sun Microsystems customers in a front-page advertisement it placed in Thursday's European edition of The Wall Street Journal.  —  The advertisement commits to greater investments in Sun hardware and Solaris software …
Discussion: Post I.T., TechCrunch and Linux.com
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Western Digital introduces smarter, more intuitive backup drives  —  Try as they might, the hard drive companies just can't convince consumers to backup their precious computer data.  Only about 14 percent of consumers use an external hard drive, according to hard disk maker Western Digital.
Discussion: Electronista and Gizmodo
Paul Lee / Base: Google Base Blog:
Lights, Camera, Action!:  YouTube Videos in Google Product Search  —  Video product reviews are getting a lot of buzz right now, as shoppers increasingly turn to the web to help them figure out what to buy.  We're excited to announce that we are including relevant and high quality YouTube video reviews …
 
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Jeff / The NewsCloud Blog:
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Jennifer Martinez / GigaOM:
Carriers to Facebook Mobile: Get on a Data Diet
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Jacqueline Marino / Newspay:
Salon CEO Richard Gingras: ‘It Was a Mistake to Think of Ourselves As a Magazine’
Discussion: paidContent
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Experimental Desktop Notifications App For Mac Is Very, Very Slick
Discussion: TUAW and Pocket-lint.com, Thanks:thinkmantra